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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.. American novelist poet short story writer art critic and literary critic

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Quote Left School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
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Quote Left The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea
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Quote Left You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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Quote Left Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
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Quote Left Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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